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onehandle

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Fri Jul 27, 2012, 02:28 PM Jul 2012

Google admits it did not delete Street View data [View all]

Source: Reuters



LONDON (Reuters) - Google Inc said on Friday it had not kept its promise to delete all the personal data, such as emails, its Street View cars collected in Britain and other countries in 2010.

The U.S. company admitted in May 2010 that its vehicles, which photograph neighborhoods to create street level images, had accidentally collected data from unsecured wireless networks used by residents in more than 30 countries.

The failure to comply with a promise to delete all the data was notified to Britain's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which said the fact that the data still existed appeared to breach an undertaking signed by Google in November 2010.

"The ICO is clear that this information should never have been collected in the first place and the company's failure to secure its deletion as promised is a cause for concern," the ICO said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/google-admits-did-not-delete-street-view-data-153025384--sector.html?_esi=1



Remember this when you consider buying a Google/Android product or 'free' service.

They will spy on you. They will lie about it.

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